117:0.1 TO THE extent that we do the will of God in
whatever universe station we may have our existence, in that measure the
almighty potential of the Supreme becomes one step more actual. The will of
God is the purpose of the First Source and Center as it is potentialized in
the three Absolutes, personalized in the Eternal Son, conjoined for universe
action in the Infinite Spirit, and eternalized in the everlasting patterns of
Paradise. And God the Supreme is becoming the highest finite manifestation of
the total will of God.

117:0.2 If all grand universers should ever
relatively achieve the full living of the will of God, then would the
time-space creations be settled in light and life, and then would the
Almighty, the deity potential of Supremacy, become factual in the emergence of
the divine personality of God the Supreme.

117:0.3 When an evolving mind becomes attuned to the
circuits of cosmic mind, when an evolving universe becomes stabilized after
the pattern of the central universe, when an advancing spirit contacts the
united ministry of the Master Spirits, when an ascending mortal personality
finally attunes to the divine leading of the indwelling Adjuster, then has the
actuality of the Supreme become real by one more degree in the universes; then
has the divinity of Supremacy advanced one more step toward cosmic
realization.

117:0.4 The parts and individuals of the grand
universe evolve as a reflection of the total evolution of the Supreme, while
in turn the Supreme is the synthetic cumulative total of all grand universe
evolution. From the mortal viewpoint both are evolutionary and experiential
reciprocals.

1. NATURE OF THE SUPREME
BEING

117:1.1 The Supreme is the beauty of physical
harmony, the truth of intellectual meaning, and the goodness of spiritual
value. He is the sweetness of true success and the joy of everlasting
achievement. He is the oversoul of the grand universe, the consciousness of
the finite cosmos, the completion of finite reality, and the personification
of Creator-creature experience. Throughout all future eternity God the Supreme
will voice the reality of volitional experience in the trinity relationships
of Deity.

117:1.2 In the persons of the Supreme Creators the
Gods have descended from Paradise to the domains of time and space, there to
create and to evolve creatures with Paradise-attainment capacity who can
ascend thereto in quest of the Father. This universe procession of descending
God-revealing Creators and ascending God-seeking creatures is revelatory of
the Deity evolution of the Supreme, in whom both descenders and ascenders
achieve mutuality of understanding, the discovery of eternal and universal
brotherhood. The Supreme Being thus becomes the finite synthesis of the
experience of the perfect-Creator cause and the perfecting-creature
response.

117:1.3 The grand universe contains the possibility
of, and ever seeks for, complete unification, and this grows out of the fact
that this cosmic existence is a consequence of the creative acts and the power
mandates of the Paradise Trinity, which is unqualified unity. This very
trinitarian unity is expressed in the finite cosmos in the Supreme, whose
reality becomes increasingly apparent as the universes attain to the maximum
level of Trinity identification.

117:1.4 The will of the Creator and the will of the
creature are qualitatively different, but they are also experientially akin,
for creature and Creator can collaborate in the achievement of universe
perfection. Man can work in liaison with God and thereby cocreate an eternal
finaliter. God can work even as humanity in the incarnations of his Sons, who
thereby achieve the supremacy of creature experience.

117:1.5 In the Supreme Being, Creator and creature
are united in one Deity whose will is expressive of one divine personality.
And this will of the Supreme is something more than the will of either
creature or Creator, even as the sovereign will of the Master Son of Nebadon
is now something more than a combination of the will of divinity and humanity.
The union of Paradise perfection and time-space experience yields a new
meaning value on deity levels of reality.

117:1.6 The evolving divine nature of the Supreme is
becoming a faithful portrayal of the matchless experience of all creatures and
of all Creators in the grand universe. In the Supreme, creatorship and
creaturehood are at one; they are forever united by that experience which was
born of the vicissitudes attendant upon the solution of the manifold problems
which beset all finite creation as it pursues the eternal path in quest of
perfection and liberation from the fetters of incompleteness.

117:1.7 Truth, beauty, and goodness are correlated
in the ministry of the Spirit, the grandeur of Paradise, the mercy of the Son,
and the experience of the Supreme. God the Supreme is truth, beauty,
and goodness, for these concepts of divinity represent finite maximums of
ideational experience. The eternal sources of these triune qualities of
divinity are on superfinite levels, but a creature could only conceive of such
sources as supertruth, superbeauty, and supergoodness.

117:1.8 Michael, a creator, revealed the divine love
of the Creator Father for his terrestrial children. And having discovered and
received this divine affection, men can aspire to reveal this love to their
brethren in the flesh. Such creature affection is a true reflection of the
love of the Supreme.

117:1.9 The Supreme is symmetrically inclusive. The
First Source and Center is potential in the three great Absolutes, is actual
in Paradise, in the Son, and in the Spirit; but the Supreme is both actual and
potential, a being of personal supremacy and of almighty power, responsive
alike to creature effort and Creator purpose; self-acting upon the universe
and self-reactive to the sum total of the universe; and at one and the same
time the supreme creator and the supreme creature. The Deity of Supremacy is
thus expressive of the sum total of the entire finite.

2. THE SOURCE OF EVOLUTIONARY
GROWTH

117:2.1 The Supreme is God-in-time; his is the
secret of creature growth in time; his also is the conquest of the incomplete
present and the consummation of the perfecting future. And the final fruits of
all finite growth are: power controlled through mind by spirit by virtue of
the unifying and creative presence of personality. The culminating consequence
of all this growth is the Supreme Being.

117:2.2 To mortal man, existence is equivalent to
growth. And so indeed it would seem to be, even in the larger universe sense,
for spirit-led existence does seem to result in experiential growth --
augmentation of status. We have long held, however, that the present growth
which characterizes creature existence in the present universe age is a
function of the Supreme. We equally hold that this kind of growth is peculiar
to the age of the growth of the Supreme, and that it will terminate with the
completion of the growth of the Supreme.

117:2.3 Consider the status of the
creature-trinitized sons: They are born and live in the present universe age;
they have personalities, together with mind and spirit endowments. They have
experiences and the memory thereof, but they do not grow as do
ascenders. It is our belief and understanding that these creature-trinitized
sons, while they are in the present universe age, are really of
the next universe age -- the age which will follow the completion of the
growth of the Supreme. Hence they are not in the Supreme as of his
present status of incompleteness and consequent growth. Thus they are
nonparticipating in the experiential growth of the present universe age, being
held in reserve for the next universe age.

117:2.4 My own order, the Mighty Messengers, being
Trinity embraced, are nonparticipating in the growth of the present universe
age. In a sense we are in status as of the preceding universe age as in fact
are the Stationary Sons of the Trinity. One thing is certain: Our status is
fixed by the Trinity embrace, and experience no longer eventuates in
growth.

117:2.5 This is not true of the finaliters nor of
any other of the evolutionary and experiential orders which are participants
in the growth process of the Supreme. You mortals now living on Urantia who
may aspire to Paradise attainment and finaliter status should understand that
such a destiny is only realizable because you are in and of the Supreme, hence
are participants in the cycle of the growth of the Supreme.

117:2.6 There will come an end sometime to the
growth of the Supreme; his status will achieve completion (in the
energy-spirit sense). This termination of the evolution of the Supreme will
also witness the ending of creature evolution as a part of Supremacy. What
kind of growth may characterize the universes of outer space, we do not know.
But we are very sure that it will be something very different from anything
that has been seen in the present age of the evolution of the seven
superuniverses. It will undoubtedly be the function of the evolutionary
citizens of the grand universe to compensate the outer-spacers for this
deprivation of the growth of Supremacy.

117:2.7 As existent upon the consummation of the
present universe age, the Supreme Being will function as an experiential
sovereign in the grand universe. Outer-spacers -- citizens of the next
universe age -- will have a postsuperuniverse growth potential, a capacity for
evolutionary attainment presupposing the sovereignty of the Almighty Supreme,
hence excluding creature participation in the power-personality synthesis of
the present universe age.

117:2.8 Thus may the incompleteness of the Supreme
be regarded as a virtue since it makes possible the evolutionary growth of the
creature-creation of the present universes. Emptiness does have its virtue,
for it may become experientially filled.

117:2.9 One of the most intriguing questions in
finite philosophy is this: Does the Supreme Being actualize in response to the
evolution of the grand universe, or does this finite cosmos progressively
evolve in response to the gradual actualization of the Supreme? Or is it
possible that they are mutually interdependent for their development? that
they are evolutionary reciprocals, each initiating the growth of the other? Of
this we are certain: Creatures and universes, high and low, are evolving
within the Supreme, and as they evolve, there is appearing the unified
summation of the entire finite activity of this universe age. And this is the
appearance of the Supreme Being, to all personalities the evolution of the
almighty power of God the Supreme.

3. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SUPREME TO UNIVERSE CREATURES

117:3.1 The cosmic reality variously designated as
the Supreme Being, God the Supreme, and the Almighty Supreme, is the complex
and universal synthesis of the emerging phases of all finite realities. The
far-flung diversification of eternal energy, divine spirit, and universal mind
attains finite culmination in the evolution of the Supreme, who is the sum
total of all finite growth, self-realized on deity levels of finite maximum
completion.

117:3.2 The Supreme is the divine channel through
which flows the creative infinity of the triodities that crystallizes into the
galactic panorama of space, against which takes place the magnificent
personality drama of time: the spirit conquest of energy-matter through the
mediation of mind.

117:3.3 Said Jesus: "I am the living way," and so he
is the living way from the material level of self-consciousness to the
spiritual level of God-consciousness. And even as he is this living way of
ascension from the self to God, so is the Supreme the living way from finite
consciousness to transcendence of consciousness, even to the insight of
absonity.

117:3.4 Your Creator Son can actually be such a
living channel from humanity to divinity since he has personally experienced
the fullness of the traversal of this universe path of progression, from the
true humanity of Joshua ben Joseph, the Son of Man, to the Paradise divinity
of Michael of Nebadon, the Son of the infinite God. Similarly can the Supreme
Being function as the universe approach to the transcendence of finite
limitations, for he is the actual embodiment and personal epitome of all
creature evolution, progression, and spiritualization. Even the grand universe
experiences of the descending personalities from Paradise are that part of his
experience which is complemental to his summation of the ascending experiences
of the pilgrims of time.

117:3.5 Mortal man is more than figuratively made in
the image of God. From a physical standpoint this statement is hardly true,
but with reference to certain universe potentialities it is an actual fact. In
the human race, something of the same drama of evolutionary attainment is
being unfolded as takes place, on a vastly larger scale, in the universe of
universes. Man, a volitional personality, becomes creative in liaison with an
Adjuster, an impersonal entity, in the presence of the finite potentialities
of the Supreme, and the result is the flowering of an immortal soul. In the
universes the Creator personalities of time and space function in liaison with
the impersonal spirit of the Paradise Trinity and become thereby creative of a
new power potential of Deity reality.

117:3.6 Mortal man, being a creature, is not exactly
like the Supreme Being, who is deity, but man's evolution does in some ways
resemble the growth of the Supreme. Man consciously grows from the material
toward the spiritual by the strength, power, and persistency of his own
decisions; he also grows as his Thought Adjuster develops new techniques for
reaching down from the spiritual to the morontial soul levels; and once the
soul comes into being, it begins to grow in and of itself.

117:3.7 This is somewhat like the way in which the
Supreme Being expands. His sovereignty grows in and out of the acts and
achievements of the Supreme Creator Personalities; that is the evolution of
the majesty of his power as the ruler of the grand universe. His deity nature
is likewise dependent on the pre-existent unity of the Paradise Trinity. But
there is still another aspect to the evolution of God the Supreme: He is not
only Creator-evolved and Trinity-derived; he is also self-evolved and
self-derived. God the Supreme is himself a volitional, creative participant in
his own deity actualization. The human morontial soul is likewise a
volitional, cocreative partner in its own immortalization.

117:3.8 The Father collaborates with the Conjoint
Actor in manipulating the energies of Paradise and in rendering these
responsive to the Supreme. The Father collaborates with the Eternal Son in the
production of Creator personalities whose acts will sometime culminate in the
sovereignty of the Supreme. The Father collaborates with both Son and Spirit
in the creation of Trinity personalities to function as rulers of the grand
universe until such time as the completed evolution of the Supreme qualifies
him to assume that sovereignty. The Father co-operates with his Deity and
non-Deity co-ordinates in these and many other ways in the furtherance of the
evolution of Supremacy, but he also functions alone in these matters. And his
solitary function is probably best revealed in the ministry of the Thought
Adjusters and their associated entities.

117:3.9 Deity is unity, existential in the Trinity,
experiential in the Supreme, and, in mortals, creature-realized in Adjuster
fusion. The presence of the Thought Adjusters in mortal man reveals the
essential unity of the universe, for man, the lowest possible type of universe
personality, contains within himself an actual fragment of the highest and
eternal reality, even the original Father of all personalities.

117:3.10 The Supreme Being evolves by virtue of his
liaison with the Paradise Trinity and in consequence of the divinity successes
of the creator and administrator children of that Trinity. Man's immortal soul
evolves its own eternal destiny by association with the divine presence of the
Paradise Father and in accordance with the personality decisions of the human
mind. What the Trinity is to God the Supreme, the Adjuster is to evolving
man.

117:3.11 During the present universe age the Supreme
Being is apparently unable to function directly as a creator except in those
instances where the finite possibilities of action have been exhausted by the
creative agencies of time and space. Thus far in universe history this has
transpired but once; when the possibilities of finite action in the matter of
universe reflectivity had been exhausted, then did the Supreme function as the
creative culminator of all antecedent creator actions. And we believe he will
again function as a culminator in future ages whenever antecedent creatorship
has completed an appropriate cycle of creative activity.

117:3.12 The Supreme Being did not create man, but
man was literally created out of, his very life was derived from, the
potentiality of the Supreme. Nor does he evolve man; yet is the Supreme
himself the very essence of evolution. From the finite standpoint, we actually
live, move, and have our being within the immanence of the Supreme.

117:3.13 The Supreme apparently cannot initiate
original causation but appears to be the catalyzer of all universe growth and
is seemingly destined to provide totality culmination as regards the destiny
of all experiential-evolutionary beings. The Father originates the concept of
a finite cosmos; the Creator Sons factualize this idea in time and space with
the consent and co-operation of the Creative Spirits; the Supreme culminates
the total finite and establishes its relationship with the destiny of the
absonite.

4. THE FINITE GOD

117:4.1 As we view the ceaseless struggles of the
creature creation for perfection of status and divinity of being, we cannot
but believe that these unending efforts bespeak the unceasing struggle of the
Supreme for divine self-realization. God the Supreme is the finite Deity, and
he must cope with the problems of the finite in the total sense of that word.
Our struggles with the vicissitudes of time in the evolutions of space are
reflections of his efforts to achieve reality of self and completion of
sovereignty within the sphere of action which his evolving nature is expanding
to the outermost limits of possibility.

117:4.2 Throughout the grand universe the Supreme
struggles for expression. His divine evolution is in measure predicated on the
wisdom-action of every personality in existence. When a human being chooses
eternal survival, he is cocreating destiny; and in the life of this ascending
mortal the finite God finds an increased measure of personality
self-realization and an enlargement of experiential sovereignty. But if a
creature rejects the eternal career, that part of the Supreme which was
dependent on this creature's choice experiences inescapable delay, a
deprivation which must be compensated by substitutional or collateral
experience; as for the personality of the nonsurvivor, it is absorbed into the
oversoul of creation, becoming a part of the Deity of the Supreme.

117:4.3 God is so trusting, so loving, that he gives
a portion of his divine nature into the hands of even human beings for
safekeeping and self-realization. The Father nature, the Adjuster presence, is
indestructible regardless of the choice of the mortal being. The child of the
Supreme, the evolving self, can be destroyed notwithstanding that the
potentially unifying personality of such a misguided self will persist as a
factor of the Deity of Supremacy.

117:4.4 The human personality can truly destroy
individuality of creaturehood, and though all that was worth while in the life
of such a cosmic suicide will persist, these qualities will not persist as
an individual creature. The Supreme will again find expression in the
creatures of the universes but never again as that particular person; the
unique personality of a nonascender returns to the Supreme as a drop of water
returns to the sea.

117:4.5 Any isolated action of the personal parts of
the finite is comparatively irrelevant to the eventual appearance of the
Supreme Whole, but the whole is nonetheless dependent on the total acts of the
manifold parts. The personality of the individual mortal is insignificant in
the face of the total of Supremacy, but the personality of each human being
represents an irreplaceable meaning-value in the finite; personality, having
once been expressed, never again finds identical expression except in the
continuing existence of that living personality.

117:4.6 And so, as we strive for self-expression,
the Supreme is striving in us, and with us, for deity expression. As we find
the Father, so has the Supreme again found the Paradise Creator of all things.
As we master the problems of self-realization, so is the God of experience
achieving almighty supremacy in the universes of time and space.

117:4.7 Mankind does not ascend effortlessly in the
universe, neither does the Supreme evolve without purposeful and intelligent
action. Creatures do not attain perfection by mere passivity, nor can the
spirit of Supremacy factualize the power of the Almighty without unceasing
service ministry to the finite creation.

117:4.8 The temporal relation of man to the Supreme
is the foundation for cosmic morality, the universal sensitivity to, and
acceptance of, duty. This is a morality which transcends the temporal
sense of relative right and wrong; it is a morality directly predicated on the
self-conscious creature's appreciation of experiential obligation to
experiential Deity. Mortal man and all other finite creatures are created out
of the living potential of energy, mind, and spirit existent in the Supreme.
It is upon the Supreme that the Adjuster-mortal ascender draws for the
creation of the immortal and divine character of a finaliter. It is out of the
very reality of the Supreme that the Adjuster, with the consent of the human
will, weaves the patterns of the eternal nature of an ascending son of
God.

117:4.9 The evolution of Adjuster progress in the
spiritualizing and eternalizing of a human personality is directly productive
of an enlargement of the sovereignty of the Supreme. Such achievements in
human evolution are at the same time achievements in the evolutionary
actualization of the Supreme. While it is true that creatures could not evolve
without the Supreme, it is probably also true that the evolution of the
Supreme can never be fully attained independent of the completed evolution of
all creatures. Herein lies the great cosmic responsibility of self-conscious
personalities: That Supreme Deity is in a certain sense dependent on the
choosing of the mortal will. And the mutual progression of creature evolution
and of Supreme evolution is faithfully and fully indicated to the Ancients of
Days over the inscrutable mechanisms of universe reflectivity.

117:4.10 The great challenge that has been given to
mortal man is this: Will you decide to personalize the experiencible value
meanings of the cosmos into your own evolving selfhood? or by rejecting
survival, will you allow these secrets of Supremacy to lie dormant, awaiting
the action of another creature at some other time who will in his way
attempt a creature contribution to the evolution of the finite God? But that
will be his contribution to the Supreme, not yours.

117:4.11 The great struggle of this universe age is
between the potential and the actual -- the seeking for actualization by all
that is as yet unexpressed. If mortal man proceeds upon the Paradise
adventure, he is following the motions of time, which flow as currents within
the stream of eternity; if mortal man rejects the eternal career, he is moving
counter to the stream of events in the finite universes. The mechanical
creation moves on inexorably in accordance with the unfolding purpose of the
Paradise Father , but the volitional creation has the choice of accepting or
of rejecting the role of personality participation in the adventure of
eternity. Mortal man cannot destroy the supreme values of human existence, but
he can very definitely prevent the evolution of these values in his own
personal experience. To the extent that the human self thus refuses to take
part in the Paradise ascent, to just that extent is the Supreme delayed in
achieving divinity expression in the grand universe.

117:4.12 Into the keeping of mortal man has been
given not only the Adjuster presence of the Paradise Father but also control
over the destiny of an infinitesimal fraction of the future of the Supreme.
For as man attains human destiny, so does the Supreme achieve destiny on deity
levels.

117:4.13 And so the decision awaits each of you as
it once awaited each of us: Will you fail the God of time, who is so dependent
upon the decisions of the finite mind? will you fail the Supreme personality
of the universes by the slothfulness of animalistic retrogression? will you
fail the great brother of all creatures, who is so dependent on each creature?
can you allow yourself to pass into the realm of the unrealized when before
you lies the enchanting vista of the universe career -- the divine discovery
of the Paradise Father and the divine participation in the search for, and the
evolution of, the God of Supremacy?

117:4.14 God's gifts -- his bestowal of reality --
are not divorcements from himself; he does not alienate creation from himself,
but he has set up tensions in the creations circling Paradise. God first loves
man and confers upon him the potential of immortality -- eternal reality. And
as man loves God, so does man become eternal in actuality. And here is
mystery: The more closely man approaches God through love, the greater the
reality -- actuality -- of that man. The more man withdraws from God, the more
nearly he approaches nonreality -- cessation of existence. When man
consecrates his will to the doing of the Father's will, when man gives God all
that he has, then does God make that man more than he is.

5. THE OVERSOUL OF CREATION

117:5.1 The great Supreme is the cosmic oversoul of
the grand universe. In him the qualities and quantities of the cosmos do find
their deity reflection; his deity nature is the mosaic composite of the total
vastness of all creature-Creator nature throughout the evolving universes. And
the Supreme is also an actualizing Deity embodying a creative will which
embraces an evolving universe purpose.

117:5.2 The intellectual, potentially personal
selves of the finite emerge from the Third Source and Center and achieve
finite time-space Deity synthesis in the Supreme. When the creature submits to
the will of the Creator, he does not submerge or surrender his personality;
the individual personality participants in the actualization of the finite God
do not lose their volitional selfhood by so functioning. Rather are such
personalities progressively augmented by participation in this great Deity
adventure; by such union with divinity man exalts, enriches, spiritualizes,
and unifies his evolving self to the very threshold of supremacy.

117:5.3 The evolving immortal soul of man, the joint
creation of the material mind and the Adjuster, ascends as such to Paradise
and subsequently, when mustered into the Corps of the Finality, becomes allied
in some new way with the spirit-gravity circuit of the Eternal Son by a
technique of experience known as finaliter transcendation. Such
finaliters thus become acceptable candidates for experiential recognition as
personalities of God the Supreme. And when these mortal intellects in the
unrevealed future assignments of the Corps of the Finality attain the seventh
stage of spirit existence, such dual minds will become triune. These two
attuned minds, the human and the divine, will become glorified in union with
the experiential mind of the then actualized Supreme Being.

117:5.4 In the eternal future, God the Supreme will
be actualized -- creatively expressed and spiritually portrayed -- in the
spiritualized mind, the immortal soul, of ascendant man, even as the Universal
Father was so revealed in the earth life of Jesus.

117:5.5 Man does not unite with the Supreme and
submerge his personal identity, but the universe repercussions of the
experience of all men do thus form a part of the divine experiencing of the
Supreme. "The act is ours, the consequences God's."

117:5.6 The progressing personality leaves a trail
of actualized reality as it passes through the ascending levels of the
universes. Be they mind, spirit, or energy, the growing creations of time and
space are modified by the progression of personality through their domains.
When man acts, the Supreme reacts, and this transaction constitutes the fact
of progression.

117:5.7 The great circuits of energy, mind, and
spirit are never the permanent possessions of ascending personality; these
ministries remain forever a part of Supremacy. In the mortal experience the
human intellect resides in the rhythmic pulsations of the adjutant
mind-spirits and effects its decisions within the arena produced by
encircuitment within this ministry. Upon mortal death the human self is
everlastingly divorced from the adjutant circuit. While these adjutants never
seem to transmit experience from one personality to another, they can and do
transmit the impersonal repercussions of decision-action through God the
Sevenfold to God the Supreme. (At least this is true of the adjutants of
worship and wisdom.)

117:5.8 And so it is with the spiritual circuits:
Man utilizes these in his ascent through the universes, but he never possesses
them as a part of his eternal personality. But these circuits of spiritual
ministry, whether Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit, or superuniverse spirit
presences, are receptive and reactive to the emerging values in ascending
personality, and these values are faithfully transmitted through the Sevenfold
to the Supreme.

117:5.9 While such spiritual influences as the Holy
Spirit and the Spirit of Truth are local universe ministrations, their
guidance is not wholly confined to the geographic limitations of a given local
creation. As the ascending mortal passes beyond the boundaries of his local
universe of origin, he is not entirely deprived of the ministry of the Spirit
of Truth which has so constantly taught and guided him through the philosophic
mazes of the material and morontial worlds, in every crisis of ascension
unfailingly directing the Paradise pilgrim, ever saying: "This is the way."
When you leave the domains of the local universe, through the ministry of the
spirit of the emerging Supreme Being and through the provisions of
superuniverse reflectivity, you will still be guided in your Paradise ascent
by the comforting directive spirit of the Paradise bestowal Sons of
God.

117:5.10 How do these manifold circuits of cosmic
ministry register the meanings, values, and facts of evolutionary experience
in the Supreme? We are not exactly certain, but we believe that this registry
takes place through the persons of the Supreme Creators of Paradise origin who
are the immediate bestowers of these circuits of time and space. The
mind-experience accumulations of the seven adjutant mind-spirits, in their
ministry to the physical level of intellect, are a part of the local universe
experience of the Divine Minister, and through this Creative Spirit they
probably find registry in the mind of Supremacy. Likewise are mortal
experiences with the Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit probably registered
by similar techniques in the person of Supremacy.

117:5.11 Even the experience of man and Adjuster
must find echo in the divinity of God the Supreme, for, as the Adjusters
experience, they are like the Supreme, and the evolving soul of mortal man is
created out of the pre-existent possibility for such experience within the
Supreme.

117:5.12 In this manner do the manifold experiences
of all creation become a part of the evolution of Supremacy. Creatures merely
utilize the qualities and quantities of the finite as they ascend to the
Father; the impersonal consequences of such utilization remain forever a part
of the living cosmos, the Supreme person.

117:5.13 What man himself takes with him as a
personality possession are the character consequences of the experience of
having used the mind and spirit circuits of the grand universe in his Paradise
ascent. When man decides, and when he consummates this decision in action, man
experiences, and the meanings and the values of this experience are forever a
part of his eternal character on all levels, from the finite to the final.
Cosmically moral and divinely spiritual character represents the creature's
capital accumulation of personal decisions which have been illuminated by
sincere worship, glorified by intelligent love, and consummated in brotherly
service.

117:5.14 The evolving Supreme will eventually
compensate finite creatures for their inability ever to achieve more than
limited experience contact with the universe of universes. Creatures can
attain the Paradise Father, but their evolutionary minds, being finite, are
incapable of really understanding the infinite and absolute Father. But since
all creature experiencing registers in, and is a part of, the Supreme, when
all creatures attain the final level of finite existence, and after total
universe development makes possible their attainment of God the Supreme as an
actual divinity presence, then, inherent in the fact of such contact, is
contact with total experience. The finite of time contains within itself the
seeds of eternity; and we are taught that, when the fullness of evolution
witnesses the exhaustion of the capacity for cosmic growth, the total finite
will embark upon the absonite phases of the eternal career in quest of the
Father as Ultimate.

6. THE QUEST FOR THE
SUPREME

117:6.1 We seek the Supreme in the universes, but we
find him not. "He is the within and the without of all things and beings,
moving and quiescent. Unrecognizable in his mystery, though distant, yet is he
near." The Almighty Supreme is "the form of the yet unformed, the pattern of
the yet uncreated." The Supreme is your universe home, and when you find him,
it will be like returning home. He is your experiential parent, and even as in
the experience of human beings, so has he grown in the experience of divine
parenthood. He knows you because he is creaturelike as well as
creatorlike.

117:6.2 If you truly desire to find God, you cannot
help having born in your minds the consciousness of the Supreme. As God is
your divine Father, so is the Supreme your divine Mother, in whom you are
nurtured throughout your lives as universe creatures. "How universal is the
Supreme -- he is on all sides! The limitless things of creation depend on his
presence for life, and none are refused."

117:6.3 What Michael is to Nebadon, the Supreme is
to the finite cosmos; his Deity is the great avenue through which the love of
the Father flows outward to all creation, and he is the great avenue through
which finite creatures pass inward in their quest of the Father, who is love.
Even Thought Adjusters are related to him; in original nature and divinity
they are like the Father, but when they experience the transactions of time in
the universes of space, they become like the Supreme.

117:6.4 The act of the creature's choosing to do the
will of the Creator is a cosmic value and has a universe meaning which is
immediately reacted to by some unrevealed but ubiquitous force of
co-ordination, probably the functioning of the ever-enlarging action of the
Supreme Being.

117:6.5 The morontia soul of an evolving mortal is
really the son of the Adjuster action of the Universal Father and the child of
the cosmic reaction of the Supreme Being, the Universal Mother. The mother
influence dominates the human personality throughout the local universe
childhood of the growing soul. The influence of the Deity parents becomes more
equal after the Adjuster fusion and during the superuniverse career, but when
the creatures of time begin the traversal of the central universe of eternity,
the Father nature becomes increasingly manifest, attaining its height of
finite manifestation upon the recognition of the Universal Father and the
admission into the Corps of the Finality.

117:6.6 In and through the experience of finaliter
attainment the experiential mother qualities of the ascending self become
tremendously affected by contact and infusion with the spirit presence of the
Eternal Son and the mind presence of the Infinite Spirit. Then, throughout the
realms of finaliter activity in the grand universe, there appears a new
awakening of the latent mother potential of the Supreme, a new realization of
experiential meanings, and a new synthesis of experiential values of the
entire ascension career. It appears that this realization of self will
continue in the universe careers of the sixth-stage finaliters until the
mother inheritance of the Supreme attains to finite synchrony with the
Adjuster inheritance of the Father. This intriguing period of grand universe
function represents the continuing adult career of the ascendant and perfected
mortal.

117:6.7 Upon the completion of the sixth stage of
existence and the entrance upon the seventh and final stage of spirit status,
there will probably ensue the advancing ages of enriching experience, ripening
wisdom, and divinity realization. In the nature of the finaliter this will
probably equal the completed attainment of the mind struggle for spirit
self-realization, the completion of the co-ordination of the ascendant
man-nature with the divine Adjuster-nature within the limits of finite
possibilities. Such a magnificent universe self thus becomes the eternal
finaliter son of the Paradise Father as well as the eternal universe child of
the Mother Supreme, a universe self qualified to represent both the Father and
Mother of universes and personalities in any activity or undertaking
pertaining to the finite administration of created, creating, or evolving
things and beings.

117:6.8 All soul-evolving humans are literally the
evolutionary sons of God the Father and God the Mother, the Supreme Being. But
until such time as mortal man becomes soul-conscious of his divine heritage,
this assurance of Deity kinship must be faith realized. Human life experience
is the cosmic cocoon in which the universe endowments of the Supreme Being and
the universe presence of the Universal Father (none of which are
personalities) are evolving the morontia soul of time and the human-divine
finaliter character of universe destiny and eternal service.

117:6.9 Men all too often forget that God is the
greatest experience in human existence. Other experiences are limited in their
nature and content, but the experience of God has no limits save those of the
creature's comprehension capacity, and this very experience is in itself
capacity enlarging. When men search for God, they are searching for
everything. When they find God, they have found everything. The search for God
is the unstinted bestowal of love attended by amazing discoveries of new and
greater love to be bestowed.

117:6.10 All true love is from God, and man receives
the divine affection as he himself bestows this love upon his fellows. Love is
dynamic. It can never be captured; it is alive, free, thrilling, and always
moving. Man can never take the love of the Father and imprison it within his
heart. The Father's love can become real to mortal man only by passing through
that man's personality as he in turn bestows this love upon his fellows. The
great circuit of love is from the Father, through sons to brothers, and hence
to the Supreme. The love of the Father appears in the mortal personality by
the ministry of the indwelling Adjuster. Such a God-knowing son reveals this
love to his universe brethren, and this fraternal affection is the essence of
the love of the Supreme.

117:6.11 There is no approach to the Supreme except
through experience, and in the current epochs of creation there are only three
avenues of creature approach to Supremacy:

117:6.12 1. The Paradise Citizens descend from the
eternal Isle through Havona, where they acquire capacity for Supremacy
comprehension through observation of the Paradise-Havona reality differential
and by exploratory discovery of the manifold activities of the Supreme Creator
Personalities, ranging from the Master Spirits to the Creator Sons.

117:6.13 2. The time-space ascenders coming up from
the evolutionary universes of the Supreme Creators make close approach to the
Supreme in the traversal of Havona as a preliminary to the augmenting
appreciation of the unity of the Paradise Trinity.

117:6.14 3. The Havona natives acquire a
comprehension of the Supreme through contacts with descending pilgrims from
Paradise and ascending pilgrims from the seven superuniverses. Havona natives
are inherently in position to harmonize the essentially different viewpoints
of the citizens of the eternal Isle and the citizens of the evolutionary
universes.

117:6.15 To evolutionary creatures there are seven
great approaches to the Universal Father, and each of these Paradise
ascensions passes through the divinity of one of the Seven Master Spirits; and
each such approach is made possible by an enlargement of experience
receptivity consequent upon the creature's having served in the superuniverse
reflective of the nature of that Master Spirit. The sum total of these seven
experiences constitutes the present-known limits of a creature's consciousness
of the reality and actuality of God the Supreme.

117:6.16 It is not only man's own limitations which
prevent him from finding the finite God; it is also the incompletion of the
universe; even the incompletion of all creatures -- past, present, and future
-- makes the Supreme inaccessible. God the Father can be found by any
individual who has attained the divine level of Godlikeness, but God the
Supreme will never be personally discovered by any one creature until
that far-distant time when, through the universal attainment of perfection,
all creatures will simultaneously find him.

117:6.17 Despite the fact that you cannot, in this
universe age, personally find him as you can and will find the Father, the
Son, and the Spirit, nevertheless, the Paradise ascent and subsequent universe
career will gradually create in your consciousness the recognition of the
universe presence and the cosmic action of the God of all experience. The
fruits of the spirit are the substance of the Supreme as he is realizable in
human experience.

117:6.18 Man's sometime attainment of the Supreme is
consequent upon his fusion with the spirit of Paradise Deity. With Urantians
this spirit is the Adjuster presence of the Universal Father; and though the
Mystery Monitor is from the Father and like the Father, we doubt that even
such a divine gift can achieve the impossible task of revealing the nature of
the infinite God to a finite creature. We suspect that what the Adjusters will
reveal to future seventh-stage finaliters will be the divinity and nature of
God the Supreme. And this revelation will be to a finite creature what the
revelation of the Infinite would be to an absolute being.

117:6.19 The Supreme is not infinite, but he
probably embraces all of infinity that a finite creature can ever really
comprehend. To understand more than the Supreme is to be more than
finite!

117:6.20 All experiential creations are
interdependent in their realization of destiny. Only existential reality is
self-contained and self-existent. Havona and the seven superuniverses require
each other to achieve the maximum of finite attainment; likewise will they be
sometime dependent on the future universes of outer space for finite
transcendence.

117:6.21 A human ascender can find the Father; God
is existential and therefore real, irrespective of the status of experience in
the total universe. But no single ascender will ever find the Supreme until
all ascenders have reached that maximum universe maturity which qualifies them
simultaneously to participate in this discovery.

117:6.22 The Father is no respecter of persons; he
treats each of his ascending sons as cosmic individuals. The Supreme likewise
is no respecter of persons; he treats his experiential children as a single
cosmic total.

117:6.23 Man can discover the Father in his heart,
but he will have to search for the Supreme in the hearts of all other men; and
when all creatures perfectly reveal the love of the Supreme, then will he
become a universe actuality to all creatures. And that is just another way of
saying that the universes will be settled in light and life.

117:6.24 The attainment of perfected
self-realization by all personalities plus the attainment of perfected
equilibrium throughout the universes equals the attainment of the Supreme and
witnesses the liberation of all finite reality from the limitations of
incomplete existence. Such an exhaustion of all finite potentials yields the
completed attainment of the Supreme and may be otherwise defined as the
completed evolutionary actualization of the Supreme Being himself.

117:6.25 Men do not find the Supreme suddenly and
spectacularly as an earthquake tears chasms into the rocks, but they find him
slowly and patiently as a river quietly wears away the soil
beneath.

117:6.26 When you find the Father, you will find the
great cause of your spiritual ascent in the universes; when you find the
Supreme, you will discover the great result of your career of Paradise
progression.

117:6.27 But no God-knowing mortal can ever be
lonely in his journey through the cosmos, for he knows that the Father walks
beside him each step of the way, while the very way that he is traversing is
the presence of the Supreme.

7. THE FUTURE OF THE
SUPREME

117:7.1 The completed realization of all finite
potentials equals the completion of the realization of all evolutionary
experience. This suggests the final emergence of the Supreme as an almighty
Deity presence in the universes. We believe that the Supreme, in this stage of
development, will be as discretely personalized as is the Eternal Son, as
concretely powerized as is the Isle of Paradise, as completely unified as is
the Conjoint Actor, and all of this within the limitations of the finite
possibilities of Supremacy at the culmination of the present universe
age.

117:7.2 While this is an entirely proper concept of
the future of the Supreme, we would call attention to certain problems
inherent in this concept:

117:7.3 1. The Unqualified Supervisors of the
Supreme could hardly be deitized at any stage prior to his completed
evolution, and yet these same supervisors even now qualifiedly exercise the
sovereignty of supremacy concerning the universes settled in light and
life.

117:7.4 2. The Supreme could hardly function in the
Trinity Ultimate until he had attained complete actuality of universe status,
and yet the Trinity Ultimate is even now a qualified reality, and you have
been informed of the existence of the Qualified Vicegerents of the
Ultimate

117:7.5 3. The Supreme is not completely real to
universe creatures, but there are many reasons for deducing that he is quite
real to the Sevenfold Deity, extending from the Universal Father on Paradise
to the Creator Sons and the Creative Spirits of the local
universes.

117:7.6 It may be that on the upper limits of the
finite, where time conjoins transcended time, there is some sort of blurring
and blending of sequence. It may be that the Supreme is able to forecast his
universe presence onto these supertime levels and then to a limited degree
anticipate future evolution by reflecting this future forecast back to the
created levels as the Immanence of the Projected Incomplete. Such phenomena
may be observed wherever finite makes contact with superfinite, as in the
experiences of human beings who are indwelt by Thought Adjusters that are
veritable predictions of man's future universe attainments throughout all
eternity.

117:7.7 When mortal ascenders are admitted to the
finaliter corps of Paradise, they take an oath to the Paradise Trinity, and in
taking this oath of allegiance, they are thereby pledging eternal fidelity to
God the Supreme, who is the Trinity as comprehended by all finite creature
personalities. Subsequently, as the finaliter companies function throughout
the evolving universes, they are solely amenable to the mandates of Paradise
origin until the eventful times of the settling of local universes in light
and life. As the new governmental organizations of these perfected creations
begin to be reflective of the emerging sovereignty of the Supreme, we observe
that the outlying finaliter companies then acknowledge the jurisdictional
authority of such new governments. It appears that God the Supreme is evolving
as the unifier of the evolutionary Corps of the Finality, but it is highly
probable that the eternal destiny of these seven corps will be directed by the
Supreme as a member of the Ultimate Trinity.

117:7.8 The Supreme Being contains three superfinite
possibilities for universe manifestation:

1. Absonite collaboration in the first
experiential Trinity.

2. Coabsolute relationship in the second
experiential Trinity.

3. Coinfinite participation in the Trinity of
Trinities, but we have no satisfactory concept as to what this really means.

117:7.9 This is one of the generally accepted
hypotheses of the future of the Supreme, but there are also many speculations
concerning his relations to the present grand universe subsequent to its
attainment of the status of light and life.

117:7.10 The present goal of the superuniverses is
to become, as they are and within their potentials, perfect, even as is
Havona. This perfection pertains to physical and spiritual attainment, even to
administrative, governmental, and fraternal development. It is believed that,
in the ages to come, the possibilities for disharmony, maladjustment, and
misadaptation will be eventually exhausted in the superuniverses. The energy
circuits will be in perfect balance and in complete subjugation to mind, while
spirit, in the presence of personality, will have achieved the dominance of
mind.

117:7.11 It is conjectured that at this far-distant
time the spirit person of the Supreme and attained power of the Almighty will
have achieved co-ordinate development, and that both, as unified in and by the
Supreme Mind, will factualize as the Supreme Being, a completed actuality in
the universes -- an actuality which will be observable by all creature
intelligences, reacted to by all created energies, co-ordinated in all
spiritual entities, and experienced by all universe personalities.

117:7.12 This concept implies the actual sovereignty
of the Supreme in the grand universe. It is altogether likely that the present
Trinity administrators will continue as his vicegerents, but we believe that
the present demarcations between the seven superuniverses will gradually
disappear, and that the entire grand universe will function as a perfected
whole.

117:7.13 It is possible that the Supreme may then be
personally resident on Uversa, the headquarters of Orvonton, from which he
will direct the administration of the time creations, but this is really only
a conjecture. Certainly, though, the personality of the Supreme Being will be
definitely contactable at some specific locality, although the ubiquity of his
Deity presence will probably continue to permeate the universe of universes.
What the relation of the superuniverse citizens of that age will be to the
Supreme we do not know, but it may be something like the present relationship
between the Havona natives and the Paradise Trinity.

117:7.14 The perfected grand universe of those
future days will be vastly different from what it is at present. Gone will be
the thrilling adventures of the organization of the galaxies of space, the
planting of life on the uncertain worlds of time, and the evolving of harmony
out of chaos, beauty out of potentials, truth out of meanings, and goodness
out of values. The time universes will have achieved the fulfillment of finite
destiny! And perhaps for a space there will be rest, relaxation from the
agelong struggle for evolutionary perfection. But not for long! Certainly,
surely, and inexorably the enigma of the emerging Deity of God the Ultimate
will challenge these perfected citizens of the settled universes just as their
struggling evolutionary forebears were once challenged by the quest for God
the Supreme. The curtain of cosmic destiny will draw back to reveal the
transcendent grandeur of the alluring absonite quest for the attainment of the
Universal Father on those new and higher levels revealed in the ultimate of
creature experience.

117:7.15Sponsored
by a Mighty Messenger temporarily sojourning on
Urantia.